This past Sunday, I watched the pundits discuss what they thought would solve all our problems. Gun control and mental health drugs seemed to be the consensus among them.

In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook slaughter of so many innocents, we need to step back and take account of what has happened to this country in the last 40 or 50 years.

Our great country was founded by those who were persecuted in their home countries either in their freedom or for their religious beliefs. This is the only country in world history that has started this way. Our Founding Fathers set out to form our government by laying down laws that were based on the teachings found in the Bible and especially the Ten Commandments. Whether you have religious or secular beliefs, these laws are the best in the world.

Our country, I believe, started a downward spiral in the early 1960s with the Supreme Court’s ruling to take Bible reading out of the schools in 1962. The next year, an atheist named Madalyn O’Hair sued to take prayer out of school and again the Supreme Court ruled in favor of this action. Dr. Benjamin Spock’s many books on child rearing have also proven to be flawed, in their no-discipline, “spare the rod”, “let them develop on their own” philosophy. Our destiny should not be formed by those who think this way. It seems to me that a small minority of secular-thinking people have changed this country into one I don’t recognize anymore.

In today’s world of violent video games that kids play and “if it feels good, do it” attitudes of an alarming number of “adults”, we are becoming an increasingly secular society and thus are slowly deteriorating our Founding Father’s precepts of what this country was founded for. Unless and until we return to these precepts, this country, I fear, will be lost on the rubbish heap of the many other failed countries of history.